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Oncoming death is terrible enough, but worse still is oncoming death with time to spare…

With the very first rays of light it came alive in me: hope. As things emerged in outline and filled with color, hope increased until it was like a song in my heart. Oh, what it was to bask in it!

Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there’s so little fish to catch?

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

“The whole point of [St Francis] was that the secret of recovering the natural pleasures lay in regarding them in the light of a supernatural pleasure…The vigil of asceticism which ends in the vision of a natural world made new.”

The Church of the Portiuncula…was where he gathered the little knot of friends and enthusiasts…the adoration of Christ had been a part of the man’s passionate nature for a long time past. But the imitation of Christ, as a sort of plan or ordered scheme of life, may in that sense be said to begin here.

…to this great mystic his religion was not a thing like a theory but a thing like a love-affair.